File:Saxton Somerset uncoloured 1579.jpg

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Title
Latina: Somersetensem Comitat[us]
Description
English: Uncoloured print of Christopher Saxton's map of Somerset, 1579
Date circa 1579
date QS:P,+1579-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Creator
Christopher Saxton  (1540–1610)  wikidata:Q2099402
 
Description cartographer and publisher
Date of birth/death 1540 Edit this at Wikidata 1610 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q2099402
Leonard Terwoort  (fl. second half of 16th century
date QS:P,+1550–00–00T00:00:00Z/7,P4241,Q40719707
 wikidata:Q105716926
 
Alternative names
Lenaert Terwoort
Description engraver and printmaker
Work period second half of 16th century
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P4241,Q40719707
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creator QS:P170,Q105716926
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Date depicted
Map location Somerset
Map type county map
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Language Latin
Place of publication London
Publisher
Christopher Saxton
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Medium engraving
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Title top left:

Somersetensem Comitat[us] (agri fertilitate Celebrem) hec ob oculos ponit Tabula

Date top left:

Anno · 1575 · et D: / Elizabethe Regine A:o 17

bottom left:

Leonardus Terwoort Antverpianus sculpsit

bottom left:

Christophorus Saxton descripsit
artwork-references Skelton, R. A. (1978-) County atlases of the British Isles, 1579-1850 : a bibliography, Folkestone, Eng.: Dawson, pp. 12−16 ISBN: 0-7129-0873-0. OCLC: 5094281.


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